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LIMA — Author Kimberly Nixon will discuss her novels at an event starting at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26 at The Met, 306 N. Main St., Lima.

LIMA — The Allen County Family and Children First Council will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 11, in the Allen County Ohio Means Jobs workforce development center, 951 Commerce Parkway.

BLUFFTON — Heart & Vascular Specialists of Northwest Ohio is extending clinic hours at Bluffton Hospital to include two full-day clinics a month starting in March, according to a press release from Blanchard Valley Health System.

LIMA — The Allen County Council on Aging will host a Medicare 101 workshop at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13 at the Lima Public Library, 650 W. Market St.

LIMA — Lima Memorial Health System will celebrate 167 associates for their service on March 14 at the University of Northwestern Ohio Event Center, 1450 N. Cable Road, Lima.

HARROD — The Allen East school board will meet in work session at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, at 9105 Harding Highway, Harrod.

LIMA — Matt and Joy Barnett will perform special music at the Lima Pilgrim Holiness Church revival through March 10 at the church, 2100 W. Breese Road, Lima.

LIMA POLICE DEPARTMENT

The decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them after a freight train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year wasn’t justified, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board told Congress Wednesday. But she said the key decision-makers who feared those tank cars were going to explode three days after the crash never had the information they needed.

LIMA — Cole Street will be closed all day today in the 100 and 200 blocks.